No dead pixels, no sub pixel weird colorations, just a totally fine normal Steam Deck with a fun color way. If you’re an owner of the LE waiting for it to arrive, freaking out about it because you’re seeing all the issues here, fear not there is a good chance your Deck is going to be fine.
Sadly I got the reverse.
LCDeck Flawless and 0 issues aside from a bad fan bearing 1 year in. (I replaced myself. Normal wear and tear to me)
OLED LE - stuck and dead pixels.
If valve’s selling point on the refreshed model is the screen and I already have a steamdeck.
The screen you give me better be perfect or it will be returned for refund and I’ll use my existing steamdeck.
3-5 dead pixels on a NEW device should not, and will never be the norm for me. Nor tolerated.
They will 100% be RMAed until I get a fully working screen.
Dumb analogy:
if I buy a 1200x800 box of chocolates from the chocolate store.
Only to find 5 of them missing from a sealed container.
And I go to return the box because I clearly didn’t get what I paid for, and the clerk tells me. "Oh that’s normal, we don’t accept a refund for boxes of chocolates missing 5 or less pieces from a sealed package.
I would be pissed. I wouldn’t buy from that store again and I would never eat that brand of chocolate again because their quality control is shit.
So far valve is honoring RMAs for dead pixels so it’s not ALL bad yet. But damn dude. I spent 679.99 on a handheld device that was supposesed to be limited edition. Why was the QA, THIS bad?